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Plan for watercooling h440, first build, please critique

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August 17, 2014 5:37:25 PM

Heres my system to be

samsung 4k monitor ~$450
2x r9 290 ~$240 each $480 total
1000w psu ~$100
4x2 ram ~$100
i5 4690k ~$220
G1. sniper 5 mb ~$200
1tb HDD &128 gbSSD ~$100
NZXT h440 ~$110

Total: ~$1750

I want my watercooling to be this
Akust WC02-0004-AKS Larkooler SkyWater 330 ~$120
radiator 360 ~$60-$80
250 mm res ~ $60
gpu blocks ~$240 ($120 each)

What do you guys think?

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a c 178 K Overclocking
August 18, 2014 8:27:14 AM

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...Larkooler...

Nooooope!

Get a kit from a more well known brand, talking Swiftech, XSPC or EK. That Larkooler kit uses an unknown pump glued to a reservoir (not a good thing if either fails), unknown block and has an Aluminium fin rad (If you see Aluminium anywhere when it comes to WC'ing, avoid it like the plague). Its not a good kit.

There is a reason why the XSPC equivalent to that kit costs $50 more.
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/20835/ex-wat-263/XSPC...
However, for what your after, you really want something more like this.
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/23377/ex-wat-298/XSPC...
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a c 337 K Overclocking
August 18, 2014 6:09:35 PM

Well, the tubes are supposedly copper, so the water would only contact the copper and brass in the radiator...as long as the tanks are brass or copper as well. Many rads do have aluminum fins to cut down on costs, but I'd be curious to know where they source their hardware from. The pump looks similar to a D5, but the performance is a fraction of the D5.

480 lph/127 gph vs. 1200 lph/317 gph.

The CPU block looks Raystorm-ish.

Never been a fan of Larkooler...I put them in the same neighborhood as Thermaltake watercooling gear. I'd be more than happy to do some reviews on their stuff, but nothing I have seen from them sticks out to me as being worth the money over well-established watercooling gear...and there are a lot of those good vendors out there to choose from.
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August 18, 2014 11:02:15 PM

If this is your first build, I would cut it in half. You are way over-doing it.
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a c 178 K Overclocking
August 18, 2014 11:12:51 PM

Even if the Aluminium present poses no risk of corrosion, I still wouldn't use it as its a poor conductor, even the budget XSPC rads use Copper fins.
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